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Algebra tutors and WARNING about Prof. Weissman.
If you are about to take the bait presented in ALGEBRAX.ZIP
be forewarned.
A little over three years ago I did that and later regretted
it. When I sent my order to BUY the complete commercial program I
discovered that it consisted of SIX (yes 6) disks at a total cost
of about $130. Being an ethical person I sent the money, believing
that I could install on my hard drive and use it freely. BUT not
so. Discovered that he has sneakily protected them, by EVERLOK, so
that they can be thus transferred only twice unless each time they
are again MOVED back to the floppies after each use. That becomes
quite a nuisance,
When one buys something legitimately, and pays the requested
sum, one normally expects to own the property free and clear with
no encumberance. But not with that author. He retains control of
the merchandise in such a way that if you fail to MOVE it back to
floppy after use you must eventually re-purchase new copies from
him. To me that constitutes cheating.
I had considerable direct correspondence with him asking
for copies which I could transfer to HD and use freely as MY property.
I assured that I would safeguard his copyright and would not copy
the program for use by someone else. But he was adamant and intransigent,
flatly refusing to do anything about it and saying that it would
be a very great labor to eliminate the PROTECTION.
His statement was "it is so embedded in my code that it would take
weeks to create a non-protected version". That is a untruth becaue
he would have to originally write them in unprotected form, so that
he could later make any revisions that seemed needed, and then install
the EVERLOCK protect which he uses for the disks that we buy. But
any sensible author will save his personal original without the PROTECT
included.
I have a privately created program which completely removes
the EVERLOK protection in about ten seconds from each disk.
Actually there exists a $75 commercial program which DEPROTECTS
them nearly instantly, but I had not felt that such an additional
investment should be necessary after paying him the requested fee
for his tutor program.
In order to use them at MY OWN convenience I now have all six
disks DEPROTECTED and compressed in ZIP for compact storage so I
can copy indiscriminantly as many times as I wish. But I will not
upload to any BBS because that would be illegal. I am personally
fully competant in the subject but had bought the program for instruction
of a young member of my family. If you really insist on having that
instruction I can be helpful. You must leave me a message on HOT
TIPS BBS (818)-248-3088,with your phone number (I would call collect
if outside of 818 area) and the time when you will be there to answer
the phone. In order to promote your education I can provide several
other non-commercial algebra tutorials FREE which are more simple
and, in my opinion, more instructive. These others are not tied to
any text books,such as are tied into the WEISSMAN programs. They
are self-contained.
I am Ralph Huff